Aug 21 (Reuters) - Uncertainty over Scotland's currencyarrangements could prompt capital flight from the country,leaving its financial system in a "parlous state," DouglasFlint, chairman of HSBC Holdings Plc, wrote in a columnon Thursday in the Telegraph newspaper in Britain.
Flint said that sterling currency union was the anchor fromwhich Scotland derives its economic success and financialstability.
Flint, chairman of Europe's biggest bank, said the decisionby three major political parties to rule out a currency unionwith an independent Scotland was "wholly consistent with theactions that have been taken in the aftermath of the financialcrisis" and "with the knowledge gained from recent events in theeurozone."
The question of whether Scotland could keep the pound if itvoted on Sept. 18 to leave the United Kingdom has hamperedindependence campaigners. The British government has said no andBank of England Governor Mark Carney has warned of difficultiesin monetary union. (Reporting by Karen Rebelo in Bangalore; Editing by LisaShumaker)